Worst day at work

[ChunkyMunky]

I might have picked a bad time to start a new business, then!

Nah, You'll start small and by the end you'll probably be at the top of the stink heap. An honest way of making it to the top :P

[ailean]

I might have picked a bad time to start a new business, then!

Maybe, but a small business is able to adapt quickly, has less fixed outgoings, and if the market for you is still there you stand a chance. What are you doing?

Thanks for the comments guys, IT is often the first to get scaled back, you can't get rid of it in a company very easily, but you can reduce the staff to a level that just keeps things ticking over, which is what's happened to my company.

[headtheball]

Callout IT repair and tuition. I'm working on the unique selling point of being considerably cheaper than anyone else locally.

[Perandor]

Pah, I made a 14 year old girl cry yesterday. Top that!

your not doing the job right if you dont ;)

Was going to make a joke about my massive penis, but that's just not right.

I was pretty blunt with a pupil and she didn't take it too well... Might have an awkward moment in monday's lesson, but the principal teacher said not to worry. So not only made her cry but got away with it!

can you give me her number?  I'll make it right :P

[ailean]

Callout IT repair and tuition. I'm working on the unique selling point of being considerably cheaper than anyone else locally.

You might actually do well in the current climate, companies who can't afford a full time IT bod or who need a few extra hours a week will likely consider you. We have a 3rd line support contract to cover our servers for instance. I can do the day to day stuff, but my main focus is software development, so if something nasty happens to the servers I can pick up the phone and make it someone else's problem :)

[headtheball]

I had my most PICNIC client yet, today.

Why can't I burn DVD's? Because, dear girl, those are blank CD's.

Also, whilst I appreciate your charmingly naive interpretation of "wireless connection" ever so much, please cease speaking, lest I get my hammer for you.. Yes, it's a "wireless" router, but it does need to be plugged in to the internets. And the wall. And taken out of the fecking box.


Please give me money, it will atone for the stupid.

[ailean]

^ I am so glad I don't have to speak to members of the public any more :)

[headtheball]

I've stopped carrying a hammer in my toolbag now. It seems best.

Still, no-one ever made money out of folk who knew how to do what they were doing.

[noodleplugerine]

Yesterday was probably the least enjoyable day I've had in my working life so far. I work in the IT department of a small mortgage broker, just me and one other guy. Yesterday I had to make him redundant due to the mortgage market being somewhat dead at the moment. Other departments also lost people, about a quarter of the company all told.

I've never had to make someone redundant before and it sucks. I've been made redundant before, and I suppose it is worse on a personal level, but to have to tell someone, sorry you're out of a job, is really unpleasent.

Sounds horrible!

I imagine it's even worse for him!